Forget everything you thought you knew about Christmas. According to the rules of Red One – an all-action movie that looks set to deck the halls, right in the face – Santa’s operation is a near-military one, an organised operation that sees the superhuman gift-giver deploy every effort in order to bring joy to all those kids on Christmas morning. And that includes having Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson as a right-hand man – meet Callum Drift, less a Christmas elf than a member of the E.L.F.

“They’re not actually elves,” director Jake Kansan, previously behind Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle and its sequel The Next Level, tells Empire. “They’re the E.L.F., which stands for Enforcement, Logistics and Fortification.” Drift is a true believer in the festive fun – but when J.K. Simmons’ Santa is kidnapped, Drift is forced to team up with Chris Evans’ not-so-nice tracker Jack O’Malley...